Re: Did You Know...

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Yes. I knew. So there.

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Did not.

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I think that checking one's email on a cell phone is *way* prissier than taking an aerobics class.

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I predict all comments on this post will fall into 2 categories:

(1) "Yes. You didn't?"

(2) Proud proclamations of their ignorance by phone Luddites

Sign me up for #2.

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Aren't you fat and unconnected? What would you know about it, opinion machine?

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5 to 3, of course.

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The important question is: does it work well enough to make it worth adding internet access to my phone plan?

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You can also send text messages with search strings and get simplified results. Write things like "define wizard" or "price massage" or "match point 91101," send the string to GOOGL.

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see, the only reason I use it is because I have a blackberry from work (which is how i knew about it). if I were asked to pay $5 so I could read the internet from the phone, when I already pay at home for internet access... I'm not sure I would.

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Everyone already knows that, TJ. Geez.

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Aren't you fat and unconnected?

I have it on good authority that dialing a certain number containing a 2 will allow you to speak with B directly.

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Matt, it depends on how desperately you want to get your mail, no matter where you are. And Gmail isn't my primary account, so I don't have a good idea of how often the mobile service is down.

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I have it on good authority that dialing a certain number containing a 2 will allow you to speak with B directly.

In that case, I take it all back.

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Proud proclamations of their ignorance by phone Luddites

Hear, hear! I've had a cell phone for just one year now, and I'm ready to chuck the damn thing into the ocean.

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I knew that. This post brings me back once again to my kindergarten years. I finally forced my parents into giving me the lowdown on where babies came from, and I was so proud that I had this information that as soon as recess came, I announced to my friends, breathlessly, "I know where babies come from! Before I only knew there was a sperm and an egg, but now I know that the sperm gets to the egg when the daddy puts his penis in the mommy's vagina!" About 4 different five-year-olds informed me, "We all knew that already, Tia."

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In the where? *faints*

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It's just a kid story, SB, that's not how it really works.

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I'm ready to chuck the damn thing into the ocean.

Do it! They are a scourge upon our great land!

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that's not how it really works.

From what I've been able to gather, it has something to do with next Tuesday, but nobody will explain it to me.

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Nutsack!

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Wait, do the n and t in nutsack stand for next Tuesday?

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Elephant-scrotum valise.

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15. It would have been new to me, Tia.

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I learned last night that sometimes male bears will kill and eat cubs so that the females will quit lactating and be ready for fornication again.

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22. I'll see your elephant-scrotum valise and raise you a hog-taint waltz.

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Your phone has a web browser but not an email client? That seems weird. It's much easier to just turn on POP access in Gmail and have your phone pull down the messages that way (assuming data charges aren't a big concern).

And on that note: I love my sidekick.

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It does have an email client, which is why I don't much use the Gmail site. But I only pull down unread messages with my client, and occasionally need to search for an old gmail message.

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Wait wait, it's *Tom's* phone I'm ready to chuck into the ocean. Every time he gets an e-mail it makes a sound (Vwoiip!) and flashes tiny lights.

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If you chuck Tom into the ocean, I'll give you ten bucks.

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Time for a new ringtone?

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If you're not obsessed with (phone) size, this one has a nice feature I haven't seen anywhere else.

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can't defend --dying keys

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Where is everyone?

Sometimes I get the feeling that everyone else but me is off having an orgy somewhere. That hurts.

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What are dying keys?

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Dying keys are ones (e.g. the 'p' on bostoniangirl's laptop) which do not work.

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33: Just imagine how it would hurt if you were at the orgy.

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Maybe people are actually being forced to work at their jobs or something.

I don't really care if I was invited to your orgy. There are lots of orgies here in Lake Wobegon. Bestiality, age-of-consent, all that stuff.

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35: Exactly JO. And that was supposed to go in the other thread. I've since lost 'o", "k', 'i', 'l', ',' and '.'. I'm not on my laptop right now. So everything is okay. I've managed to get by with cutting and pasting, and in Word I've reassigned keys. Someone hunted up an old keyboard for me. So, I'll be able to cope. That comment was supposed to go on the other thread where I reposted it.

Somewhat tangential to this thread, but here goes: is anyone having trouble with yahoo today? It seems really slow.

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The family phone lost it's "6". Some friends won't hear from us until we get the new phone. Other friends are still fine.

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Yahoo is working normally now.

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As a hack, you could just tape-record the "6" sound from some other phone and play the tape into your receiver when you need a "6". I am pretty sure this will work. NOt if you have a dial phone; but I'm thinking you don't because I don't think it's possible for a dial phone to lose one of its digits.

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NOt s/b Not

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I'll just dump my friends with sixes in their numbers. Easier.

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There was a great Steven Wright routine on this basis -- way back when you could first buy phones from someone other than AT&T, he bought a cheap phone and discovered that it had no '5'. And went on for a bit describing all of the difficulties this made for him, including that his girlfriend got mad at him because he never called her anymore because her number had a 5 in it. The punchline was "She broke up with me a while back. I'm not sure how long ago -- my calendar doesn't have any '7's."

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I'll just dump my friends with sixes in their numbers. Easier.

Like you have friends, old man.

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Wait wait, it's *Tom's* phone I'm ready to chuck into the ocean. Every time he gets an e-mail it makes a sound (Vwoiip!) and flashes tiny lights.

But I can make it any sound you'd like, Smasher! I'm sure we can reach a mutually agreeable compromise. Perhaps some sort of Black Eyed Peas song?

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46 was me (obviously)

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